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Altitude Angel, a UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) technology provider, has announced that it is to launch the world’s first UTM ‘conflict resolution service’ as an API, and in doing so has taken a huge step towards allowing automated drone flights to become a day-to-day reality. Continue reading
South Korean researchers have developed a detection system capable of identifying small drones more than three kilometers away that can be used to monitor and stop spy drones or unmanned operations targeting high-risk facilities such as nuclear power plants. Continue reading
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Last Summer, Israel shot down yet another military drone near the line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria. The confrontation would have been business as usual, if not for a twist: Images of the destroyed drone showed Cyrillic tail markings and other identifiable components of a Forpost belonging to Russia. Continue reading
Turkish engineers have developed a weapon apparatus that reduces gun recoil, or kickback in weapons, including guns mounted on drones, to zero while doubling the speed, range, and impact of bullets in the first and only system in the world of its kind, the chairman of the developing company said Wednesday. Continue reading
Nasser Hassan Al Naimi, CEO of Qatar military subsidiary Barzan Holdings, accepts a gift from Textron Systems CEO Lisa Atherton at an event announcing the purchase of a surveillance drone for Charleston-based Barzan Aeronauticall
A Qatari defense firm with its headquarters in Charleston recently purchased a surveillance drone as part of its plan to provide intelligence services to unspecified international customers. Continue reading
A military reconnaissance drone crashed in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning, reportedly after it was shot down by a Palestinian terror group in the coastal enclave. Continue reading
A Sammad-3 long-range UAV with the bulge over its wing box is seen in front of a smaller Sammad-2
The Yemeni rebel group Ansar Allah (popularly known as the Houthis) unveiled on 7 July weapons that it has been using to attack Saudi Arabia in recent months, including a ground-launched cruise missile that may have been used to attack Abha International Airport on 12 June. Continue reading
Chief Harold Schapelhouman, Menlo Park Fire District and Battalion Chief Richard Fields, Los Angeles Fire Department join Captain Vern Salle, Chula Vista Police Department
The DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Alliance, the leading 501(c)3 non-profit program advocating for and supporting the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – also known as “drones” – for public safety missions has announced their inaugural Board of Advisors. Continue reading